What is the primary goal of the therapist in client-centered therapy?
a) to facilitate transference
b) to eliminate the client's undesirable behaviors
c) to provide unconditional positive regard
d) to help the client become more aware of his or her own feelings
ANS: C, The primary goal of the therapist in client-centered therapy is to provide unconditional positive regard.
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Which of these statements best describes aversive and appetitive processes?
A. An aversive process involves avoiding stressors in the relationship; an appetitive process involves taking on stressors despite consequences. B. An aversive process consists of unexplained emotional distance; an appetitive process consists of overexplaining emotions. C. An aversive process involves eliminating negative relationship behaviors; an appetitive process involves promoting positive relationship behaviors. D. An aversive process consists of shunning those outside of the relationship; an appetitive process consists of allowing too much feedback from those outside of the relationship.
Contingency management programs are most closely associated with the _______ approach to treatment
a) operant conditioning b) cognitive c) humanistic-existential d) rational emotive
Which of the following phenomena would NOT be explained by balance theory?
A) We want to agree with the people we like and disagree with those we dislike. B) We want to see things that are alike in one way as alike in other ways, too. C) We want to return favors that we receive from others. D) We want to associate good things with good people.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. "Getting into everything" is the way that babies learn about the world. 2. Means-end behavior occurs within the first 3 months of human life. 3. An infant who delights in a game of peekaboo is mastering the concept of object permanence. 4. According to information-processing theorists, cognitive development in infancy occurs gradually, not in qualitatively different stages. 5. Infants don't understand anything about human emotions and motivations until age 2.